all our cotton clothes are stretching like crazy
We air dry everything and wash cold so all of our clothes are stretching out a lot, any way to shrink them back down besides drying warm/hot or do I just have to go to the laundromat?
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Did you hang dry? For my cotton sweatshirts, after stretching from hang dry, I was able to get it slightly closer to normal size after washing hot and drying but it did not return 100%
Soaking in warm/hot water helped shrink some of my stuff back down a bit, although some stuff ended up being uneven-ish.
And are you hand-washing and hang-drying by any chance?
Machine wash, then dry on a drying rack, so sort of hang sort of flat depending on how much stuff we washed
We’ll probably try a hot soak and see if that helps
I usually wash my cotton clothes on 40-50C if I want them to shrink a bit, or hot (90C) if they need to shrink a lot. I air dry but you could probably get even more shrinkage using a machine. I’ve never had any issues with clothes shrinking unevenly, apart from one jacket with a zip where the fabric around the zip shrunk causing the zip to be a bit wavey. Im pretty sure you won’t have any issues with the sweatshirt pictured
After soaking by hand it’s also recommended to roll the garments with a towel to get as much water off the garment before hanging, to avoid the weight pulling down on it and possibly stretching it again. It dries much faster too